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but a little shorter. Three or four other large light-coloured forms are also 
enclosed, showing that the plants have been very well grown. 
A curious form has flowered in the collection of R. Ashworth, Esq., 
Newchurch, near Manch » in which half the flowers have the inner 
angles of the lateral sepals stained with maroon. A smaller number on the 
same plant have only one sepal so marked, and the remaining fourth are 
without these markings at all. It presented the same peculiarity last ya 
This lip-like colouration of the lateral sepals is characteristic of the variety 
burfordiense, though we believe the peculiarity is constant in that form. 
The forms of this popular and useful species are becoming rather 
numerous. Some others have been received, but call for no special remark, 
being only good average forms. 
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ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James Street, vena 
February 11th last was a very good one, and above the avenge a 
particular season, doubtless owing to the mild weather which prevailed. 3 
number of Awards were made, and, singularly enough, two exhibitors bes 
received an Award of Merit for the old Cypripedium villosum, which has 
previously been overlooked. ‘ 
The ana Sir Trevor Lawrence, Burford, Dorking (gr. nue hee 
staged a choice group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was ee 
included a fine basket of the beautiful Dendrobium x burfordiense, cov x 
with its pretty rose-tinted flowers, and a splendid specimen 2 
Domini 1, Ilia X Fraseri, M. melanopus, Cypripedium Me 
aureum, and four others to which Special Awards were given. S 2 
specimen of Pleurothallis Roezlii, bearing numerous drooping racemes 
large vinous-purple flowers, received a Cultural Commendation, and aes 
others each secured an Award of Merit. These were —Masdevalle 
Henriette (M. ignea 2 x M. caudata Shuttleworthii ¢ ), with salmon-p™ 
Owers, veined with a darker tint; Dendrobium x pallens, a fe 
delicately-tinted flower, of which D. Findlayanum is said to be one pare? 
and Cypripedium villosum, of which some fine examples were shown. . 
The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Moor pee 
Birmingham (gr. Mr. Burberry), sent two very interesting hybrids rat sed M 
the collection. These were Masdevallia x Shuttryana Chamberlanii (M- 
coccinea Harryana 9 x M, caudata Shuttleworthii ), to which an ee 
of Merit was given, and Dendrobium x Andromeda (D. x Ainswort! 
Leechianum 9 x p, X Cassiope g 
flowers tinged with pink, and the dis 
. -white 
), a very pretty form with cream whi 
¢ of the lip purple, 
